The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-13
ABOUT WOMEN.

aRhO-thiihE 10 HOW ECctCu dc dH
ployment 10 which women would probably
do well.
Miss Mary Booth, the Editor of ''Har-
per's Bazaar, is said to be going to Europe
TO rest.
Municipal suffrage for women has been
defeated in Nebraska Legislature by a
small majority.
The women Of Kansas are registering
in large numbers, to vote under the new
municipal suffrage law.
The growth of the Harvard "Annex"
for women has made preparatory depart
ment necessary, and one will soon be
opened
Elk Empress Eugeni has applied to the
city Government of Naples for permits
sion to enter the hospital as a nurse, and
care for the soldiers wounded at Masso wah.
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Saxon has bought
home in Kansas and says she means to
end her days in the State which has been
the frs: to establish municipal suffrage
for women
The women of Parsons, Kan, are regis
tering in large numbers. A large NUMBER
of members of the W. G. T. U formed in
procession, and marched to the city clerk 3
OAlCe anu IeSlSteTeU
Mrs. Gladstone presided few DAYS ago
at public meeting held for the formation
Ct society of women in sympathy with
the Liberal party, to offset the influence
OF tbs Primrose League.
A young college student, whose chief
charm is MS honesty, says; THE superior
standing of college girls is owing to the
fact that the girls work for all tney are
worth, aud we work for all our fathers
are worth.
IF you had been around this morn ng
at five o'clock, when was making tue
fire, bringing in wood and water, and git
ting the breakfast might have been glad
of some help; but if ii is only about drop
Plug this bit of paper into the box that
you want to help me, | think can do that
myself" And she did.
Mrs. Helen NJ. Avery, of the Interior
Department at Washington, has the most
beautiful handwriting among the fifteen
thousand or more clerks employed by the
Government. She is also clever pen and
ink artist A head of Tasso drawn by her
IA few years ago is said by connoisseurs to
be equal to the finest steel engraving.
Rev. Annie Il. Shaw writes let er
from Minnesota on the train, struck in
snowdrlft, fifteen miles from Farmiogton
where she was to speak. A gentleman
who had heard her speak at Austin, asked
her if she would address them on the
train, while they were waiting to be dug
out. She comp led with the reque st, aud
spoke half an hour on the great good
travelling men and railroad men Can do for
temperance and society in the White
Cross Movement. Mis-; Shaw says she had
a very attentive audience
According to the official register OF Iowa
for 1887, three counties Cerro Gordo,
Madison, Warren-have women as record
ers. The counties of Cedar, Decatur,
Green, Grundy Koekuk, Louisa, Page.s
Plymouth, Van Buren, and Washington
have women as superintendents of public
schools. These women not only fill Offices
elected by the franchises of men, but sit in
judgement of controversies between male
school officials and their constituents, hear
appeals, issue certificates and revoke them,
and the schools in nearly all these counties
are of a very high order.
Men are quite willing that women
should do a hundred things which are
physically more laborious than casting
vote The solicitude some of them ex-
press for fear suffrage may injure the
health of women recalls a story told by
Miss Eastman. When school suffrage for
women was still new thing, hard-work-
ing woman appeared at the door of the
polling place in country town, to Cast
her first vote. A local politician Instantly
hustled UP to her, and offered his arm
with great gallantry to escort her to the
ballot box, saying, Let me assist you,
madam The woman looked at him, and
answered.
Cooperative housekeeping. which has
failed 50 often in more ambitious hands,
is found to be working SUCCESSFULLY, in a
quiet way, in a New York tenement
house. 1t started with little woman
who had tended glove counter until she
became the wife of a horse-car conductor
Like most poor people, she bought greer
les by the pound and half pound, and coal
by the scuttle. She saw that buying in
this way meant paying high prices, and
she persuaded the inmates oft he tenement
house to club together and buy their stores
in larger quantities. They find that this
saves about one-third of the cost. SIX of
the women have now dubbed together
and hired woman to wash and iron for
them, while they take in tailoring OF do
other work; and they have some thoughts
of trying a CO operative kitchen. Who
knows but these women may become the
Rochdale Pioneers of cooperative house
keeping.